Motivational Quotes

Change

Be the change you want to see in the world.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Change

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.